Key People

Ultimately, the quality and professionalism of Egniols’ services are down to one thing: The quality and professionalism of the key staff that head our organisation and its individual service divisions.

Many have over twenty years’ experience in their respective fields; all are experts drawn variously from the public and private sectors and from operational, industrial and consultancy backgrounds.

Chairman/Managing Director: Peter Dilworth
Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 30 years’ experience implementing and managing large and medium sized engineering infrastructure projects. His early career included spells with leading UK Civils Contractors before a move into Site Supervision and Contract Administration saw him overseeing a range of building, civil engineering and waste management projects. Joining as a Director in 2001, he was appointed MD in 2003 and became Chairman of Egniol in 2008.

Director: David Wolstencroft
With more than 20 years’ experience as an Engineer in waste management, David has worked for both waste management operators and consultancies, all the while developing his skills in design, costing and project management. Beginning his career at Nottinghamshire County Council in 1987, David transferred to their LAWDC (WasteNotts) in 1992 and then, through acquisition, onto Global Environmental and Waste Recycling Group. In 2000 David joined Symonds as a Principal Consultant and in 2001 joined Egniol. David is now a Director of Egniol Environmental Ltd, responsible to the Board for both the Environment and Project Services departments.

Director: Colin Jones
20 years in waste management and civil engineering has given Colin an extensive knowledge of materials technology and seen him develop his career through several senior roles in all aspects of construction management and contract administration. Colin began his career in 1988 as a laboratory technician with Celtest Ltd, a specialist material testing facility to the construction industry, joining the Symonds Group as a CQA engineer a decade later. In 2001 he joined Egniol as CQA Manager and responsible for developing the site services element of the business. Colin is now a Director of Egniol Environmental Ltd and responsible to the board for the Engineering Division.

Associate Director: Philip Wilson
Philip is a highly experienced professional civil and geotechnical engineer. Graduating with an honours degree in civil engineering, Philip’s early career was firmly grounded in geotechnical engineering, involving mining subsidence, pile design, retaining wall design, stability and settlement analysis of embankments and interpretative reporting of ground investigations. Philip moved to the Highways Agency (HA) in 1992 as Head of Geotechnics and became the final decision maker for all HA geotechnical matters, reporting to the HA Management Board. He was responsible for resolving the most complex, innovative and challenging geotechnical issues associated with the development of the trunk road network and was responsible for up to 75 professional personnel. He then transferred to a policy development role in the Department of Transport and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister providing advice to Ministers. Since 2005 Philip has worked in the independent consultancy sector providing geotechnical and geo-environmental services to clients, latterly acting as Assistant Chief Engineer at Metronet, with responsibility for asset management of ageing earthworks and earth structures, R&D and technical governance and assurance of all geotechnical issues. Philip is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and has been involved in the development of many National and International standards.